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INDUSTRY EVENTS AND CONFERENCES
Trade shows, seminars, events and conferences about the business of the performing arts
July 16-29, 2023 Arlington, VA Piano Technicians Guild Convention
July 31 - August 3, 2023 Pittsburgh, PA International Association of Venue Managers Conference
August 16-18, 2023 Riverside, CA Association of California Symphony Orchestras Conference
August 20-23, 2023 Tokyo, Japan InterNoise Conference 2023
August 23-25, 2023 Huddersfield, United Kingdom Audio Engineering Society International Conference (Spacial & Immersive Audio)
September 5-8, 2023 Seattle, WA Western Arts Alliance Conference
September 6-8, 2023 Hasselt, Belgium Audio Engineering Society International Conference (Audio Education)
September 18-21, 2023 Quito, Ecuador Audio Engineering Society Latin American Conference
October 12-14, 2023 Charleston, SC National Association for Campus Activities Convention
October 16-19, 2023 Beaverton, OR Arts Northwest Annual Conference
October 19-21, 2023 Little Rock, AR National Association for Campus Activities Convention
October 19-22, 2023 Ottowa, ON Society for Ethnomusicology Conference
October 25-26, 2023 New York, NY National Association of Broadcasters Show
October 25-27, 2023 New York, NY Audio Engineering Society 155th Convention
October 26-28, 2023 Miami, FL College Music Society National Conference
October 26-28, 2023 Syracuse, NY National Association for Campus Activities Convention
November 3-5, 2023 Raleigh, NC National Council of Acoustical Consultants Conference
November 4-8, 2023 Ottowa, ON Canadian Arts Presenting Association
November 9-12, 2023 Denver, CO American Musicological Society Annual Conference
November 9-12, 2023 Denver, CO Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting
November 16-18, 2023 Riverside, CA National Association for Campus Activities Convention
November 17-21, 2023 Scottsdale, AZ National Association of Schools of Music Annual Meeting
December 4-8, 2023 Sydney, Australia Acoustical Society of America 185th Meeting
January 3-6, 2024 Phoenix, AZ National Opera Association Annual Convention
January 4-6, 2024 New York, NY International Conductors Guild
January 9-11, 2024 New York, NY International Society for the Performing Arts
January 12-16, 2024 New York, NY Arts Presenters Conference
January 18-21, 2024 New York, NY Chamber Music America
January 24-27, 2024 Spokane, WA American Choral Directors Association Northwestern Region Conference
January 25-28, 2024 Anaheim, CA National Association of Music Merchants Show
January 29 - February 1, 2024 Las Vegas, NV International Ticketing Association Annual Conference
February 7-10, 2024 Omaha, NE American Choral Directors Association Midwestern Region Conference
February 21-24, 2024 Louisville, KY American Choral Directors Association Southern Region Conference
February 27 - March 2, 2024 Denver, CO American Choral Directors Association Southwestern Region Conference
February 28 - March 2, 2024 Providence, RI American Choral Directors Association Eastern Region Conference
February 28 - March 2, 2024 Cincinnati, OH Music Library Association Annual Meeting
March 6-9, 2024 Pasadena, CA American Choral Directors Association Western Region Conference
March 6-10, 2024 Washington, DC American Bandmasters Association Annual Convention
March 16-20, 2024 Atlanta, GA Music Teachers National Association National Conference
March 20-23, 2024 Louisville, KY Suzuki Association of the Americas Conference
March 20-23, 2024 Louisville, KY American String Teachers Association National Conference
March 20-23, 2024 Seattle, WA US Institute for Theatre Technology Annual Conference
April 4-6, 2024 Des Moines, IA National Association for Campus Activities National Convention
April 13-17, 2024 Las Vegas, NV National Association of Broadcasters Show
April 30 - May 3, 2024 Perth, Australia International Society for the Performing Arts
May 13-17, 2024 Ottowa, ON Acoustical Society of America 186th Meeting
June 3-8, 2024 Los Angeles, CA Opera America
June 6-8, 2024 Atlanta, GA Chorus America Conference
June 16-19, 2024 Orlando, FL American Harp Society Conference
June 17-22, 2024 Fullerton, CA Guitar Foundation of America Convention
June 20-22, 2024 Chicago, IL Theatre Communications Group National Conference
June 28 - July 2, 2024 Knoxville, TN National Association of Teachers of Singing Conference
June 30 - July 4, 2024 San Francisco, CA American Guild of Organists
July 21-25, 2024 Flagstaff, AZ International Double Reed Society Annual Conference
July 31 - August 4, 2024 Dublin, Ireland ClarinetFest Conference 2024
August 1-4, 2024 San Antonio, TX National Flute Association Conference
October 17-26, 2024 Virtual Society for Ethnomusicology Conference
November 7-9, 2024 Washington, DC College Music Society National Conference
November 7-10, 2024 Jacksonville, FL Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting
November 11-16, 2024 Montréal, QC CINARS (International Exchange for the Performing Arts) 
November 14-17, 2024 Chicago, IL American Musicological Society Annual Conference
November 22-26, 2024 Chicago, IL National Association of Schools of Music Annual Meeting
February 26 - March 2, 2025 Chattanooga, TN American Bandmasters Association Annual Convention
March 5-8, 2025 Columbus, OH US Institute for Theatre Technology Annual Conference
March 15-19, 2025 Minneapolis, MN Music Teachers National Association National Conference
May 19-23, 2025 New Orleans, LA Acoustical Society of America 188th Meeting
June 17-20, 2025 Chicago, IL Dance/USA Annual Conference
August 7-10, 2025 Atlanta, GA National Flute Association Conference
October 23-26, 2025 Atlanta, GA Society for Ethnomusicology Conference
October 30 - November 1, 2025 Spokane, WA College Music Society National Conference
November 4-9, 2025 Minneapolis, MN American Musicological Society Annual Conference
November 6-9, 2025 Minneapolis, MN Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting
March 18-21, 2026 Long Beach, CA US Institute for Theatre Technology Annual Conference

Ask Edna
Edna Landau’s blog
Edna LandauEdna Landau—doyenne of the music business, long-time managing director of IMG Artists and director of career development at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles—writes Ask Edna exclusively for MusicalAmerica.com to provide invaluable advice to music students and young professional artists. Read more about Edna’s impact on the performing arts.

Send your questions to Edna Landau at AskEdna@MusicalAmerica.com and she’ll answer through Ask Edna. Click the links below to read Edna’s recent columns on the critical aspects of launching and managing and professional music career.

Arts Administration

Career Etiquette

Communicating with Your Audience

Finding a Manager

For Chamber Music Ensembles

Listening to Your Inner Voice

Managing Your Own Career

Publicity and Promotion

The Orchestral World

When It Comes to Recording

During Edna’s 23 years as managing director of IMG Artists, she personally looked after the career of violinist, Itzhak Perlman and launched the careers of musicians such as pianists Evgeny Kissin and Lang Lang, violinist Hilary Hahn, and conductors Franz Welser-Mõst and Alan Gilbert.

Edna believes young musicians can grow their own careers, with “hard work, blind faith, passion for the cause, incessant networking and a vision that refuse[s] to be tarnished by naysayers.”

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White Noise

July 18, 2019 | By Helene Davis

NYU Skirball will present the U.S.  premiere of Tony Award winner Daniel Fish’s White Noise, freely inspired by

the novel by Don DeLillo, running Friday,  September 20 – Sunday, September 22 , 2019 at NYU Skirball.

 

Daniel Fish, Tony Award nominated director for his  revival of  Oklahoma! on Broadway, brings a new work freely inspired by Don DeLillo’s novel, White Noise,  to NYU Skirball. The 70-minute performance extracts its text entirely from the novel's teeming lists, creating an obsessive reduction of its prescient themes: rampant consumerism, environmental disaster, guns, media saturation, underground conspiracy, fear of death and the disintegration of the nuclear family.

 

Originally staged in 2018  by Theater Freiburg and Ruhrfestspiele Recklingshausen in Germany, White Noise is performed by actor Bruce Mackenzie, with live accompaniment by composer/drummer Bobby Previte.

 

Jim Findlay’s video design is projected on Andrew Leiberman’s monumental set which encapsulates Mackenzie in the center of the image.

 

This U.S. premiere is a collaboration between Fish, Mackenzie, Findlay, Lieberman, Doey Lüthi (costumes), Previte, Alexandra Caffal (associative director) and Stacey Derosier (lighting). White Noise may be most appropriate for ages 11 and up, but all are welcome.

 

Daniel Fish is a New York-based director who makes work across the boundaries of theater, film, and opera. He draws on a broad range of forms and subject matter including plays, film scripts, contemporary fiction, essays and found audio. Recent work includes  the Tony Award-winning Oklahoma! (Broadway and St. Ann’s Warehouse), Michael Gordon’s opera Acquanetta (Prototype Festival, Bard Summerscape), Don’t Look Back (The Chocolate Factory), Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place (Curtis Opera), Who Left This Fork Here (Baryshnikov Arts Center, Onassis Center), Ted Hearne’s The Source (BAM NEXT WAVE, L.A. Opera, San Francisco Opera), and Eternal. His work has been seen at theaters and festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe, and his residencies and commissions include The MacDowell Colony, Baryshnikov Arts Center,  Mass MOCA, The Chocolate Factory and The Bushwick Starr.  He is the recipient of the 2017 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for the Theater. danielfish.net  



NYU SKIRBALL

NYU Skirball, located in the heart of Greenwich Village, is one of New York City’s major presenters of international work, and has been the premier venue for cultural and performing arts events in lower Manhattan since 2003. The 800-seat theater, led by Director Jay Wegman, provides a home for internationally renowned artists, innovators and thinkers. NYU Skirball hosts over 300 events annually, from re-inventions of the classics to cutting-edge premieres, in genres ranging from dance, theater and performance arts to comedy, music and  film.

 

NYU Skirball’s unique partnership with New York University enables it to draw on the University’s intellectual riches and resources to enhance its programming with dialogues, public forums and conversations with artists, philosophers, scientists, Nobel Laureates and journalists. www.nyuskirball.org.

 

Tickets and Schedule

White Noise will play Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21 at 7:30 pm; and  Sunday, September 22 at 3:00 pm. Tickets begin at $55 and can be purchased online at www.nyuskirball.org, by phone at 212.998.4941, or in person at the Box Office, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square: Tuesday-Saturday, 12:00–6:00 P.M. NYU Skirball is located at 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square, New York, New York 10012. www.nyuskirball.org

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